After his RIP and the mental breakdown, he spent the rest of his stream talking to Kripp, doing forum researches on how the mechanics work and trying to come up with builds that would work properly.

He seemed genuinely interested in the game. That's cool, PoE needs more exposure to grow even more, and Athene is quite a big internet persona.

Good thing the PoE community was welcoming him well, instead of being adherent to the stupid "athene sux" circlejerk we see on every thread about him. Nugi, WW, Kripp and others were joining athene's stream and having fun. Athene himself mentioned a couple of times how awesome the community is and that he feels very welcomed with all the famous players joining and rooting for him (to rip).

Dislike him and his audience all you want, but at least grow out of the circlejerk. I know it's hard, considering we're talking about Reddit here, but let's try to be mature around here before we ruin this sub.

One of the things to remember about the POE community is we LOVE seeing rips. So when Athene comes to play poe people welcome him because they want to see him get a high level character with tons of gear and then rip super hard. In this game you can laugh at people for their mistakes in game so you don't need to outside of game.

It's an act, how can people be so thick as to not see this. The man playing the character "Athene" is actually really intelligent. I half-remember his old hilarious videos from his WoW days where I first encountered him as a wee 16 year old playing WoW. I saw his POE stream when he was doing a fundraiser for the "keeds" and at least to me, it was clear he and his friend were really only doing the stream to try and raise money for charity, but I looked into his background anyway before donating.

From his wiki:

"Boumaaza began participating in the online poker scene on PokerStars under the pseudonym "Chiren80."[16] Through a software program that allowed him to play many hands simultaneously, Boumaaza was able to set a high volume hands-played record by playing 1,000,000 hands in one month, in addition to winning thousands of dollars through his high volume play. He made $300,000 in the course of one and half year. As a result of his fame in the online poker community, Boumaaza participated in the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) and was invited to a 2010 PokerStars tournament in the Bahamas."

Idiots don't win at poker, not consistently. He also apparently made an attempt at a "theory of everything." It's an extremely well-made documentary detailing a lot of recent discoveries in science and an (failed, I think, but he gets points for trying) attempt to synthesize them into some grand theory.

Pretentious? Perhaps. Not an idiot though, and from his record in charity work, clearly a passionate man looking to make a positive impact.

There was a pretty in-depth comment somewhere else in this thread - TL;DR, was a complete douche to anyone on his team, rigged ranked games, challenged Pros to 1v1, then faked police raids on his house when he started losing, and more!

There was a pretty in-depth comment somewhere else in this thread - TL;DR, was a complete douche to anyone on his team, rigged ranked games, challenged Pros to 1v1, then faked police raids on his house when he started losing, and more!

This guy is known for staging stuff to get his 12 year old audience to laugh. He used to (idk if he still does) play league of legends a ton, and would play horribly every game to get a reaction from his team. He once set up a 1v1 with a pro player, but halfway through, the police "raided" his house. It was a prerecorded video with crappy after effects animations with smoke and stuff. He validates this behavior and disrespect towards others because he says he is doing it all for charity. Which is partially true, but at least in league of legends, had a negative impact on ANYONE he played with. I highly suggest ignoring any stream or piece of content this guy creates.

From what I saw, he spends a significant portion of each day trying to raise money for charity. His formula seems to be:

Entertain viewers by playing the character "Athene" + ask for money after = save lives.

It's really hard for me to understand how people can rationalize away the huge focus on charity as being some kind of front so he can act like a jerk. You don't need to devote your life to charity work just to be "allowed" to act like an asshole on the internet. You just have to be an asshole. It's easy, really!

Was that during early Wrath when Pally/Dk were oppa? Bomb heals faster than flashes, infinity mana with Divine Plea, not having to stack or use spirit at all in comparison to the other 3 healing classes. There are Gladiator Holy Paladins that never fake cast.

Divine Plea, 2m CD, now based off of spirit, restores up to a max of 12% mana over 9s.

Wrath DP, 1m CD, always restored 20% mana over a few seconds.

Not only that but they had dozens of no mana cost buffs on at any given time, you'd never dispel/purge it without blowing a quarter of your own mana pool.

I didn't see Kripp in there but I'm not about to watch the full 10 minutes either. After the death Athene did jump into Kripps mumble/vent/whatever and spend 30+ minutes having the basics of the game explained to him.

Actually it was spot on. Obviously you have no basis to say I'm not right because all you said was "not quite right". He went into his mumble and asked the most basic of basic questions. He went through the skill tree and asked questions about everything. He didn't bother to read anything "Does avatar of fire mean I only deal fire damage?", questions like that where a second of reading would net him his answer.

The fact that only one single thing was wrong according to you and it was not even important. That is like someone saying a person entered a place to rob it and then someone coming over later and saying 'Actually he was already there" it doesn't matter he still robbed the store. Just like here Athene still acted like he couldn't read or do anything himself. I can understand asking some questions to better understand the more difficult parts of the game but he was just a complete retard.

He had already been playing the game up to piety yet he asked the most basic questions as if he had never logged in before. You learn by playing the game or even just reading the skills but I guess he is different than everyone else.

You don't have to like it, certainly it won't be to everyone's taste. I find it pretty amusing, but I can see why some wouldn't as it is a pretty convincing act at times. The problem is when people dislike the guy and don't realize it's an act. In that case, shouldn't they have it explained to them just in case they see it differently upon realizing it's just a character?

Of course in most cases, deep down, they'll feel like a fool for not getting it and continue to hate him for that. i.e. people who have been fooled by "The Onion" then hating it for being "childish" instead of having "no journalistic integrity" (actual quotations from someone I knew). Then again, I once knew a guy who actually didn't realize Steven Colbert and "The Colbert Report" was an act satirizing pundits like Bill O'Reilly. After I explained it to him, he thanked me and told me later it became one of his favorite shows, so it does happen!

Nope. He was AFKing and alt+tabing to make strawpolls in the middle of dangerous zones every few minutes. People were saying he was going to RIP because of that since he started playing, but he never payed attention.

Lessons learned: 1) Morons do have entertainment value as long as the interaction is one-way. 2) Getting beggars like Athene play any game will also bring his subzero-IQ followers into the game. That is a public health hazard.

Hey, at least his begging is saving children's lives, unlike the majority of the popular streamers who clutter their stream with "donations" to themselves and spend half of their time promoting the people who are "donating" in order to grab more money.

No it doesn't , in all logical interpretations of human behavior it's prominent that there are exception. The logic was based on assumption stated above for people who has low intelligence and short attention span .

That's why I said it's a barrier for noobs. Two white sapphire rings is enough to counter merveil but you have to use your brains to figure out why you're dying, instead of ragequitting because she's too OP.